The psychological inner landscape of deranged person presented as 'art'.

The controversial "Domestikator" sculpture, which many say appears to depict a human being performing a sex act on a four-legged animal, has found a new home after being deemed too "provocative" and "risque" by the Louvre.

The large walk-through sculpture was created by Dutch artist Joep Van Lieshout. It houses several smaller sculptures and a bed and was set to be installed in the Tuileries Gardens, near the Louvre, but the famous French gallery decided that it risked "being misunderstood by the visitors to the gardens."

Comment: What's to misunderstand? This is a crude and ugly manifestation of the inner workings of a deranged Dutch person.

Domestikator will instead be housed very close to the Louvre at the Pompidou Centre Museum.

The museum's director, Bernard Blistene, struck a defiant note in telling Reuters why the museum is taking the sculpture.

"Obscene, pornographic? Well, obscenity is everywhere, pornography, sadly, is everywhere, certainly not in this work of art," he said.

"This work of art is funny, it is an obvious nod to the relationship of abstraction and figurative painting that co-exist in Dutch art in the 20th century. Spiritual yes, obscene no."

Comment: Modern 'art' critics usually attempt to cover up their schzoidal natures with meaningless words.

Joep van Lieshout said that he is happy the work of art has found a home. "I'm very pleased that the Centre Pompidou was able to see beyond the sensationalized interpretations of this work," he said in a statement.

"Domestikator was always intended to be a catalyst for thought, as it addresses the very serious issue of how humans employ technology."

Comment: Eh...no. It's a crappy box structure depicting a human having sex with an animal.

In their pathological worldview, these "artists" think they are doing good by ever escalating the "shocking value" of their "art". Ya know, they are fighting against the establishment by crossing line after line, don't you understand? As a side effect, they get tons of public money (our taxes) and fly around the world being pampered by gallerists and "art critics". Plus, they can live out their pathological sexual fantasies. What a bunch of nasty, hypocritcal, evil a**ho*es.

"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations."

- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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